Actress Erin Moriarty fired back at Megyn Kelly’s allegations she is ‘obsessed’ with plastic surgery, accusing the radio host of ‘bullying’ her with ‘disgustingly false’ remarks on her looks.
‘We’re all subject to levels of bullying throughout our lives but I am horrified,’ Moriarty, 29, began in a lengthy Instagram post, saying Kelly used an image from before her 21st birthday for ‘clickbait seeking.’
‘I got my make up done that day and it involves major contouring and I remember leaving and feeling pretty,’ she continued. ‘I saw the comments, scathing enough to just turn my comments off. But this is becoming harassment. This is becoming false news.’
It comes days after Kelly sparked backlash with a recent podcast appearance, where she said of Moriarty: ‘She’s got the Kim Kardashian lips, she’s made her nose so skinny, it looks like a pencil now… I find it like a sign of mental illness.’
Actress Erin Moriarty recently shared this image to her Instagram, sparking allegations from Megyn Kelly she had ‘completely changed her face’ with plastic surgery. In response, Moriarty said the image was taken a decade ago, and her changed look was only due to ‘contouring’
Moriarty shared her response almost a week after Kelly’s controversial podcast remarks, saying she ‘had no idea what was going on’ amid social media frenzy because she was going through ‘one of the most challenging weeks of my life.’
‘And I specifically thought that as I emerge this period of time – so stressed that I have BARELY been able to eat and sleep – I thought ok, I’m going to emerge this 10 pounds thinner and the verbal abuse/ accusations will be flying,’ she continued.
While Moriarty said she was expecting viewers to suspect she was on drugs or hit her with ‘a flippant ‘just eat a burger’ comment’, she was stunned by the hostile reaction that came instead.
‘You learn to become Teflon and move on – I had NO idea what was going on this time,’ she said in the post.
‘To receive a message about a disgustingly false, counterproductive to the degree of being ironically misogynistic video of Megyn Kelly commenting on the manner (sic) – to learn the widespread nature of this has left me horrified.’
Although Kelly claimed in her appearance that the image of Moriarty, which the actress shared recently on her Instagram before deleting it, was from ‘a year ago’, Moriarty said it was actually far older.
She said the picture ‘had in actuality been taken about a decade ago before I was of LEGAL DRINKING AGE’, and called on Kelly to ‘maybe do some research that would take 30 seconds.’
‘How utterly misinformed, inaccurate and clickbait seeking people who we follow and consider to be informed is appalling,’ Moriarty said in the furious post, which contained a number of grammatical errors.
Former Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly sparked backlash with a recent podcast appearance , where she said of Moriarty: ‘She’s got the Kim Kardashian lips, she’s made her nose so skinny, it looks like a pencil now… I find it like a sign of mental illness’
Moriarty, 29, slammed Kelly’s comments on her looks as ‘utterly misinformed, inaccurate and clickbait seeking’
The remarks in question came in Kelly’s podcast earlier this month with journalist Michael Knowles, where she accused Moriarty of ‘completely changing her face’ with plastic surgeries.
She made the comments in response to Moriarty sharing the allegedly decade-old picture this month, as Kelly continued: ‘She’s got the Kim Kardashian lips. She’s made her nose so skinny it looks like a pencil now.
‘She’s got, like, what appear[s] to me to be cheek implants.
‘More and more young women are doing this.
‘It’s not about an objection to plastic surgery, it’s about an obsession with turning yourself into this fake version of yourself… I find it like a sign of mental illness.
‘It’s extremely upsetting. It’s just a massive turnoff to me. I really want to get in the heads of these young girls and say, ‘Please don’t do this,” she said.
In the same podcast, Kelly also took objection to the recent look of Jeff Bezos’ fiancé Lauren Sanchez, after she shocked fans by stepping out in Milan in a sheer Dolce & Gabbanna lace dress that exposed her backside last week.
‘I’m sorry, she looks like a hooker. You look like a hooker! And you’re dating [one of] the richest men in the world. Try to be a little classy. Must everything be an expose of your obviously over enhanced assets?’ she fumed.
Moriarty seen in her starring role in Amazon Prime show ‘The Boys’
Sanchez and fiance Jeff Bezos in Milan this week. Kelly slammed the outfit and told her to ‘have a little class’
While Sanchez is yet to respond to the remarks while likely spending time on Bezos’ $500 million superyacht, Moriarty showed less restraint.
She concluded her scathing statement by saying she had effectively disabled her account, but was leaving it active so fans could read the post.
‘Consider it deactivated,’ she said. ‘Social media was my ability to connect with fans… But I’m deciding to invest my energy into my work.’
‘I am horrified by the reaction, the reductive assumptions, and the aforementioned video that is a primary example of such harassment.
‘It’s broken my heart. You’ve broken my heart. You’ve lost the privilege of this account.’
Amid her own ‘personal situation’, she concluded that no one knows ‘what someone is going through’, adding: ‘Shame on you Megyn Kelly.’